Question

Your paper should address each of these five topics:

1.Discuss any of your actions and/or thought processes since taking
this course that demonstrate your understanding and tolerance of
the behavior of other people, allowing greater acceptance of what
is labeled different, deviant, abnormal, pathological, or
crazy.

2.Identify and discuss the forces acting on you to limit or prevent
your freedom of choice, both those rooted in your past (such as
guilt, traumatic memories, obligations, bad contracts, unrewarding
experiences, punishment, low self-esteem, or shyness), those rooted
in the present (including social pressures to conform, comply,
obey, and do what others reward you for; personal pressure to be
recognized, approved of, accepted, and loved), and those based in
the future (such as unrealistic expectations, aspirations, concern
for liabilities and responsibilities, desire for security, or fear
of death).

3.Compare and contrast any differences between how you explained
why people (including you) behaved as they did before you took this
class and how you explain these behaviors now.

4.Discuss how you develop and express intelligent skepticism about
accepting unwarranted claims—those made in the mass media as well
as those made by credentialed authorities.

5.Summarize your experience this semester by identifying the
psychology of and in everyday life that you were unaware of before
taking this course.